


Virginia’s Landmark Solar Power Project to be Hosted on University Campus
Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) in Harrisonburg will soon be the site of Virginia’s first commercial-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) installation in the Commonwealth.
The new installation is part of a proposed revision to the campus master plan to allow for approximately 600 kilowatts of solar energy panels [...]
According to the Energy Information Administration, the production facilities that in 2006 supplied the United States with 4,064,702,000 megawatts of electricity were mainly powered by coal (49%), natural gas (20%) and nuclear energy (19%). Clean, green and renewable sources lag far behind, with hydropower supplying 7% of U.S. electricity and renewable sources such as wind [...]





